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GNOME 2.12 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-09-07 13:45. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.12 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.12 start page.

All about GNOME 2.12: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2006.

Slowly but surely... it's getting there

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-09-08 06:56.

Well, given from what I've seen, things are looking good so far. I haven't install it and am waiting for Gentoo/portage to put their stamp of approval on it. The vertical panel for the Gnome system menu is great. And I'm glad that this was implemented. Hopefully when I get around to trying it out, I'll be able to see just how far I can customize it.

I do find a few things to be lacking but that's normal due to the nature of free software and open source. It isn't a permanent replacement for my windows OS on my laptop yet. Eventually it will be... it just needs certain media files to be playable as well as having the Xorg drivers completely utilize current generation video chipsets.

I still wait for that day when I'll be able to gladly say goodbye to Windows. But I fear by the time that happens, I'll own an Apple computer instead or MacOS X.

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